Listening to the sounds of workmen at my home is a comforting sound. In a few minutes I'll be merrily washing clothes in my new washing machine. With a few minutes to spare, I thought I'd jot a note about a topic that recently came up at the studio. I had a long conversation with another reiki practitioner where we discussed the differences in reiki traditions. The question became "Are there differences in the various traditions." I guess the easy answer could be "Yes" or "No", but, you know me, I never look for the easy answer. Although there are differences in practice, training, and attunement methods, we all work with the same energy. No matter how you translate the word reiki, we all agree that it is  universal energy that we, the reiki practitioners, supply to the recipient by being a willing conduit for the energy. After the conversation, I called one of my reiki mentors. I said, "Here's all I need to know about reiki: I put my hands on a client with the intent to send reiki, and healing occurs." Simple. I urge the reiki community to put aside differences and look at what we have in common. We all do important and wonderful work and together we can build a healthy and whole Quad Cities by introducing EVERYONE to reiki.